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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by icelancer on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:07PM (#23697349)
>> But that's the point, Lecun didn't reject the social impact, he was just not interested in that discussion. He was interested in a scientific discussion on the main cause of the bias.

This isn't allowed anymore, for better or worse. If you don't talk about things with a social justice lens on Twitter, you're liable to get called out as ignorant. It's the #1 subject on the site right now, and no place for discussing anything remotely adjacent to it without invoking it.

Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by jmeister on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:33PM (#23697491)
Aka “Silence is violence”.
Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by icelancer on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:44PM (#23697544)
Well yeah that's somewhat of a separate thing. If you say something but don't mention the right stuff, you get yelled at. If you are silent, you get yelled at.

In fairness, if you're gonna post a statement, you better go full bore with it with all the keywords in it. People were circulating rubrics on Twitter to grade social justice statements and brigading those who didn't hit all the notes.

https://twitter.com/peterhassett/status/1267452984432173058